On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's theoretical as I have not investigated how to create sparse files > on FreeBSD, nor have I done this. It's based on several posts to the > zfs-discuss mailing list where several people have done this on > OpenSolaris. > Easiest way to create sparse eg 20 GB assuming test.img doesn't exist already truncate -s 20g test.img ls -sk test.img 1 test.img The other standard dd method works fine too, trucate just makes it easy. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
